Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
WILL DURANTTo say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
More Will Durant Quotes
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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